MarshalBraginsky
Banned
If I can guess this right, the original Azeris must have lived there. The Iranic Azeris, not the modern day Turkicized Azeris.
If I can guess this right, the original Azeris must have lived there. The Iranic Azeris, not the modern day Turkicized Azeris.
Someone could find a real treasure if they could find that solid gold chariot.
So why would Mithridates try to poison himself? That sounded a lot stupid though.
Mithridates was rather obsessed with poisons, but his incredible ability to make antidotes to them led to all poison cure-alls (whether they were snake oil or not) to be known as Mithridatim for over a thousand years.
He was also one of THE greatest pharmacologists of his age. He stopped himself and several soldiers bleeding to death from nasty thigh wounds endemic to cavalry men, by using non lethal snake venom to constrict the blood vessels around the wounds and then sewed them up. That was why he also had a group of trained snake charmers follow him about to keep his reptilian collection in order.
His extensive research kept him very knowledgeable about poisons, how they work, how they can be cured and kept the crime rate of Pontus low. Criminals were his favourite guinea pigs...
Had Pompey not murdered his captured secretary and burned all of Mithridates notes on his pharmeceutical research in an act of callous ignorance (Pompey only kept Mithridates recipe for a potion of longevity that was quite obviously a dud) we might have had an earlier effective understanding and use of medicine. Due to old Mithridates being paranoid he only kept one copy of his notes unfortunately.